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  • Burning Spear: Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician
  • One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.
  • Tiger, tiger burning bright, 
In the forests of the night, 
What immortal hand or eye, 
Could frame thy fearful symmetry.
  • Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.
  • The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire - the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale
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  • Burning Spear A lot of things encouraged me to start my label. I think it's very important for an artist to know how many records they've sold and where they've sold. I know that I have never been treated the way I'm supposed to be treated - like an artist. That's why I do things for myself. I feel like I'm a free man.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Stephen R. Covey It's easy to say ''no!'' when there's a deeper ''yes!'' burning inside.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Burning Spear Music is my work, writing songs is my work, touring is my work, going into the studio is my work.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Burning Spear When people see a legend, they call it a legend. But to be a legend, it's a lot of hard work and patience. You can't play for five or ten years and be a legend. It takes longer than that.
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    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Paul J. Meyer A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants ''success consciousness'' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing ''habit of success.''
    Paul J. Meyer
    American businessman and business consultant (1928 - )
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  • Ellen Key All philanthropy... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to passers-by, but it does not hinder the infection in the sewer from spreading.
    Ellen Key
    Zweeds writer (1849 - 1926)
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  • Carl Sandburg And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release - out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know?
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Bill Nye Burning carbon-based substances like oil, gas, and especially coal, produces billions of tons of extra carbon dioxide each year. Methane gas from cows and pigs and other animals on our large farms ends up in the atmosphere as well, trapping more of the sun's energy as heat.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Burning Spear Dig into the roots of culture, and it will grow. It's like a grass that is growing, and it cannot stop, and music is like the fertilizer for that.
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    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • James Baldwin Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
    The Fire Next Time (1963)
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Ansel Adams Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Napoleon Hill Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Barney Ross Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.
    Barney Ross
    American professional boxer (1909 - 1967)
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  • Bill Dedman Firefighters go where they're needed, sometimes ignoring the dangers even when no one is inside a burning building to be saved.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Abraham Cahan God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
    Abraham Cahan
    Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician
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  • Harry Emerson Fosdick Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
    Harry Emerson Fosdick
    American minister (1878 - 1969)
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  • Burning Spear I believe music is like medicine. Like a good tonic, it can open your mind, strengthen and possibly even cure you. Music can work on many levels, and nothing I know of possesses the healing force that exists within music.
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    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • A. R. Ammons I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Burning Spear I feel that no one should be ashamed or have fear or doubt within themselves when they speak about the roots or Africa wherein I and I originate from. It's like an individual who tries to disown himself, and to me, it is a form of defeat by disowning yourself.
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    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Burning Spear I love what I do: there is no pressure. The music doesn't like pressure.
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